Bracket for shade-rollers



(N0 Modeh) I LA FAYETTE P. HOWELL.

BRACKET FOR SHADE ROLLERS Patented May 4, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LA FAYETTE P. HOW ELL, OF AUBURN, NFHV YORK.

BRACKET FOR SHADE-ROLLERS;

SPECIFICATION forming part of batters Patent No. 341,382fdated May 4, 1886.

Application filed January 21, 1886. Serial No. 189,269. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern;

Beitknown that I, LA FAYETTE P. HOWELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brackets for Shade- Rollers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a window frame, showing my improved brackets for shade-rollers in position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the brackets, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of a slight modification of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to brackets for shade-rollers; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a bracket which may be secured to the windowframe, and in the end of which slides a rod, to the outer end of which the bearing for the end of the roller isjournaled, enabling the brackets to be adjusted to suit different widths of shades, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, theletter A indicates the window-frame, and B is the roller for the shade O, which roller and shade may be of any desired construction, the bracket being equally applicable to springrollers, balanced rollers, or the cord-operated rollers, or any other construction, being entirely independent of the roller-operating mechanism.

D is a longitudinally-slotted block or plate,

'which may be secured upon the window-frame by means of a screw, E, either upon the upper side or upon the face of the frame, and the end of this plate is formed with a transverse bearing, F, provided with a setscrew, G, within which bearing a rod, H, slides, being adjusted by the set'screw. The end of this rod is pro vided with an outwardlyprojecting bracket, I, having a bearing, J, at its outer end for the reception ofthe trunnion of the roller, and the bracket projects at a right angle to the rod. The rod and bearing are preferably square in cross-section, so that the rodmay be held firmly without turning, and the rod may be ad usted within the bearing with the bracket projecting either in the same plane as the slotted plate, when the said plate is secured upon the upper side of the lintel of the window-frame or the rod may be secured in the bearing wlth the bracket projecting at a right angle to the plate when the said plate is secured to the face of the frame. It will be seen that the slotted plates may be thus secured to the window frame at a distance apart approaching the length of the shaderoller, whereupon the rods of the brackets may be adjusted in the bearings of the slotted plates, so as to bring them at the exact distance from each other, and in this manner it will be seen that a roller may be longer or shorter than the width of the window frame, and the slotted plates may always be secured to the window-frame, the brackets being adjusted by means of the sliding rods in the hearings to their proper relative distance.

The slotted plates may be adjusted upon theirscrews to bring the roller into a-perfeetly horizontal position, andin thismanner a shade may be hung without any necessity for very exact measurements, the brackets being capable of vertical and lateral adjustment, taking up anyinaccuracies in the original adjustment of the brackets.

If desired, the inner ends of the bearingbraekets may be formed with square bearings for the reception of the sliding rod and with set-screws, as shown at K and L, Fig. 3, allowing a double adjustment of the rod within the bearing of the slotted plate and of the bearing-bracket upon the rod; but I prefer the form shown in the other figures, and just described, as being more simple and equally as capable ofadjustment. In this manner any shade may be fitted to any window-frame, regardless of the width of the shade or the window, as the bearings for the roller may be adjusted farther apart or closer together at will, thus enabling the slotted plates to be secured at any distance apart upon the lintel of the window-frame. It

follows that any construction of roller maybe secured or journaled in the ends of the bearing-brackets, the bearings in the same being constructed to correspond to the construction of the trunnions or pivots of the roller.

ICO

Iain aware that it is not new to secure shaderoller brackets adjustably to a Window by means of a flat bar, guide-pieces, or sockets, and set-screws, and I do not claim such eonstruetion, broadly; but I do not know that they have ever been secured by means of a square bar by which they could be secured in different positions. Therefore I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States In a bracket for supporting shade rollers, the combination of a longitudinally-sl0tted plate having a transverse bearing in its end provided with a set-scre\v,with a bracket hav- LA FAYETTE P. HOWVELL.

Witnesses:

ADOLPH KEIL, Cells. H. HOLLEY. 

